Computer Science Research
Maynooth University Ireland
Welcome
This page provides information on Research in Department of Computer Science at Maynooth University (MU) in Ireland. The CS department at MU (also known as National University of Ireland Maynooth NUIM) is a member of the National University of Ireland (NUI). The NUI Computer Science departments continue together to be the top best Universities for Computer Science in Ireland in 2023 according to research.com. Our CS Department Annual Report summaries and publications are available here.
Computer Science Department in Maynooth is also on LinkedIn.
Research areas
Our research themes and applications are:
- Artificial Intelligence (inc. machine learning, Deep Neural Networks)
- Software Verification and Theoretical Computer Science
- DNA Computing
- Algorithms and Optimization
- Applications: Computer Vision, Robotics, GeoScience, Augmented Reality, Multimedia processing, Computer Science Education.
Our department has been successful in getting research funding over the years for instance from Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Research Council, and the European Union.
This timeline shows our on-going research projects and collaborations with national research centres.
This departmental Google Scholar Webpage lists our publications.
Information for students
The information page for prospective and current research postgraduate students is available here.
Academic Staff Expertise
Institutional individual webpages of academic staff members are linked using the icon for each MU CS member of staff in the table below.
Research Groups
Depending on ongoing funded projects and research interests, several academics have formed research groups e.g.:
Research Support
Research staff and students in our department can rely on the technical support from James Cotter, Michael Monaghan, Dr Vanush Paturyan (e.g. GPU cluster support) and Ranju Upadhyay.
Likewise the research activities in the department are well supported by its administrative staff Phil Dully, Des Noonan and Khalila Ismail.
Open positions
Below examples of (competitive) funding available for prospective research students and research fellows:
Contact
Department of Computer Science
Eolas Building
North Campus
Maynooth University
Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland